You are Consciousness. Your own Self is Consciousness-Itself. This is the highest teaching, the most exalted inner experience, the truth of your own existence. But what is Self? And what is Consciousness? Fortunately these terms are clearly defined in the Sanskrit texts of our tradition, Kashmiri Shaivism. The very first sutra of the very first text is the most important one of the whole tradition. It says…
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